Customer Resources

Useful Standard DBS & Enhanced DBS website links :

Links to Relevant DBS Law:

• Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (ROA)
• Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 - eligibility for DBS without barred lists
• Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act (amended by the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012) - eligibility for DBS with barred lists

Links relating to DBS Eligibility:

• Types of DBS checks (DBS website)
• Posts Eligible for a DBS Check (as provided by DBS) & available as a pdf
• DBS Guidance on Regulated Activity Criteria and Workforce types (DBS website)
• DBS guidance leaflets (DBS website)
• DBS Eligibility guide for the NHS (as provided by NHS) and NHS Employer guidance on eligibility for a DBS check 16 April 2015 (pdf)
• NHS DBS Guidance (pdf) - see page 12 for flow chart
• CQC DBS Eligibility Guidance v7 Oct 2019(pdf)
• Keeping Children Safe in Education - Statutory guidance for schools and colleges (
  Department for Education website)
• Department of Health Guidance on regulated activity with adults (pdf)
• DBS Eligibility Criteria for a volunteer DBS Application

Other Useful DBS Links:

• Accepting previously issued DBS certificates (Portability)
• DBS Adult First Checks (PoVA checks / Isa Adult First Checks)
• Security Features of a DBS Certificate
• DBS Identity Validation guidance 
• Tracking a DBS Application
• DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) Code of Practice
• Handling and Storing of DBS certificate information
• Time-frames for Spent Convictions
• DBS Filtering Guidance: On the 29 May 2013, legislation came into force that allows certain old and minor cautions and convictions to no longer be subject to DBS disclosure/DBS Check. 

Basic DBS & Basic Scotland Guidance Booklets or General Information:

Basic Disclosure forms

Basic Disclosure Website links

• Disclosure Scotland Code of Practice

Applicant Consent form - External ID Validation

Candidate Consent Form - Employee Credit Checks:

Employee Credit Check Order form:

Please contact us to request access to our secure online Employee Credit Check Order Form.

AccessNI General Guidance

AccessNi Online Application Process

AccessNI List of Acceptable ID Documents

AccessNI Identity Checking Guidelines

AccessNI Check Sample Policies/Forms:

AccessNI Sample on the Secure Handling, Storage, Retention and Disposal of Disclosure applications:

AccessNI Sample Policy on the Recruitment of Ex-Offenders

AccessNi Sample letter for requesting a certificate

AccessNi Sample Applicant Consent Form

AccessNI Website Links:

• AccessNI Code of Practice

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